Button



(No Model.)

J. BIRD.

BUTTON.

Patented Apr. 22, 1884.

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there Status JOHN BIRD, OF UNION CITY, CONNECTICUT.

BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 297,344-, dated April 22L 18 84.

(No model.)

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Be it known that I, JOHN BIRD, a resident of Union City, in the county of New Haven and State ot' Connecticut, have invented an Improved Swivelefl Button, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being made to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figures 1, 2, and 3 are face views of different styles of my improved swiveled button. Figs. 4. 5. and 6 are central sections thereof', respectively. Fig. 7 is a bottom view of the same.

The object of this invention is to produce swivel-buttons of a certain kind for use on coats and other garments.

The invention consistsin combining the annular body of the button with a swivelefl eyelet having` lower enlargement, which is set in its center, and with a cross-piece in the eyelet for securing the button in place.

In the drawings, the letter A represents a suitable button, the saine being either a covered button-such as is shown in Figs. I and 4- or a button made of bone or other substancesuch as is shown in Figs. 2 and -or one made of two pieces-an outer piece of mother-ofpearl, andan inner piece of bone or other suitable substance. NVhen made of two pieces,

these are held together by an eyelet, a, as shown in Fig. 6, or by rivets or otherwise. In either case the button has an annular body, and by this term I mean, when a covered button is referred to, to describe the back portion thereof, which is annular, as shown in Fig. 4. In this annular body is swveled, so

as to be free to revolve, an eyelet, B, which has at its lower part a cross-bar, b, that is below the plane i' the body of the button, as shown in all the iigures By means of this cross-bar the button can be stitched to the garment, the thread or threads passing around it. The eyelet being swiveled in the body of the button allows the latter to revolve freely.

It will be seen from Figs. and 6 that the eyelet B has a bulged-out portion or enlargement, d, at the lower partthat is, below the back of the button. It is inserted in the button from the lower side or back, and then spunout or flared at the upper portion. By having this bulged part or enlargement d, the eyelet helps to sustain the button, which is swiveled onto it. and to prevent the swiveled button from rubbing on the garment.

Heretofore in annular buttons the eyelets were usually inserted from the outer side or 

